Bücher von Kenyatta Kelechi

How high is the cost of an education? In the small town of Palm Shores, Florida, 22-year-old Janine Ancheta is looking for a way to pay for her college education. Her hopes and dreams of managing her father's popular bar have been shattered by his sudden death, and Janine realizes that joining the Marines is her best option for a better life and a free education. But she will soon learn the high cost of enlistment in the Marine Corps. After 13 long, tough weeks of basic training, Janine is issued a M16 rifle and deployed overseas to the war-torn country of Iraq for the next 12 months. There, she will need to rely on the many life lessons she learned from her parents and her uncle, a former career Marine himself, to navigate life and war...and her own survival.

Cameo listened carefully as his girlfriend's stepfather started to teach him the ways of the Hawaiian culture, but he didn't want to eat with his hands. They always smelled like rifle cleaning solution. He was a Marine. So begins the tale of Cameo's transition from the disciplined life of a Marine to the laid-back lifestyle of Hawaii. After a long tour of duty, making the switch to civilian life was a daunting task to Cameo, but his future wife, Leilani, eased him into a completely different culture than the one he had come from, of spit-shined boots, crisp fatigues and screaming Gunnery Sergeants. Cameo begins to live comfortably, instead, in a world where time is irrelevant and the giving of one's heart to friends and family is the core of life. Where Time Has No Meaning is the sexy, amusing memoir of one soldier's successful entry into civilian life and of the love of the Hawaiian woman and family who helped him to develop a new life full of opportunity.